Being a part of your literary community means offering more than just great books. Mysterious Galaxy is committed to regular in-store events with authors, book discussion groups, and other special events and celebrations.
Thu, 05/24/2012 - 7:30pm
The lead-in to Susan de Guardiola’s Q&A in Publishers Weekly with Kim Stanley Robinson reads “The Future is Fun. In 2312, [Stan] envisions the solar system 300 years hence as a playground for genetically altered superhumans and semisentient quantum computers who turn planets into works of art.” If that’s not enough to whet your spec fiction whistle for the new book, see Emilio’s review here. PW also gave 2312 a starred review, deeming it “a challenging, compelling masterpiece of science fiction.”
Also signing in San Diego on May 29th.
2312 (Hardcover)
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780316098120Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Orbit, 5/2012
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.
The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.
Sat, 05/26/2012 - 12:00pm
Spend part of your weekend with local young adult author Jennifer Bosworth, discussing earthquake-
devastated Los Angeles, doomsday cults, a teenage lightning addict, the importance of individuality,
and the end of the world, in the context of her debut novel, Struck. Reviewers have commented on the
cinematic quality of Struck, no doubt a reflection of Jennifer’s work as a screenwriter, and fans include
Random Riggs and Terry Brooks.
Struck (Hardcover)
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780374372835Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 5/2012
Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.
Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come.
Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn’t who he claims to be. In the end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall. When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of her strength to save the people she loves, or lose everything.
Tue, 05/29/2012 - 10:00am
A selection of books that go on sale this week, most on Tuesday, May 29th. Check with staff if you have questions.
You can also purchase many of the below in eBook format. Just click the title to see if an eBook is available for that title. (Most ebooks are not available for pre-sale.)
Happy Reading!
Signed titles may arrive later in the month. Contact the staff to reserve a copy.
The Yard (Hardcover)
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780399149542Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Putnam Adult, 5/2012
Signed copies will be available. Order yours today!
Tue, 05/29/2012 - 7:00pm
The lead-in to Susan de Guardiola’s Q&A in Publishers Weekly with Kim Stanley Robinson reads “The Future is Fun. In 2312, [Stan] envisions the solar system 300 years hence as a playground for genetically altered superhumans and semisentient quantum computers who turn planets into works of art.” If that’s not enough to whet your spec fiction whistle for the new book, see Emilio’s review. PW also gave 2312 a starred review, deeming it “a challenging, compelling masterpiece of science fiction.”
Also signing in Redondo Beach on May 24th.
2312 (Hardcover)
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780316098120Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Orbit, 5/2012
Description
"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them"--About the Author
Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of nineteen previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation's Artists in the Back Country program. He lives in Davis, California.
Wed, 05/30/2012 - 7:00pm
Local romance author Linda Thomas-Sunstrom’s latest offering for fans of the paranormal is Guardian of the Night, a new installment in her Vampire Moons universe with a Lycan character as well. Guardian and Blood Knight Mason LanVal and werewolf Faith James are brought together when Faith is searching for her missing sister, igniting forbidden sparks. Linda is also an active force in San Diego’s RWA chapter, and was instrumental in February’s inaugural Passion and Prose event.
Guardian of the Night (Mass Market Paperback)
$5.50
ISBN-13: 9780373885855Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harlequin, 5/2012
Description
The Guardian. An immortal with incredible strength, created centuries ago to protect the purity of the vampire bloodline and fight those who would abuse its power. As one of the seven Blood Knights, Mason LanVal spent lifetimes honoring his vows without wavering. That all changed the night he found Faith. Faith James will do anything to save her missing sister. Even if it means risking her own life. She sought Mason for help. Instead she found more questions, and the key to unlocking her own latent Lycanism. She is a woman and a trueborn Lycan, so her pull on Mason is twice damned. Yet he can't tear himself away. With just one kiss, the blood gift Mason gives Faith sets in motion an all-consuming desire that is forbidden to indulge, but impossible to ignore....About the Author
Linda Thomas-Sundstrom, author of paranormal romance novels, writes for Nocturne. She lives in the West, juggling teaching, writing, family, and caring for a big stretch of land. She swears she has a resident Muse who sings so loudly, she virtually funds the Post-It Company with sticky notes full of scribbles. Eventually, Linda hopes to get to all those ideas.
Thu, 05/31/2012 - 7:30pm
Master of the crime novel, Gary Phillips knows his stuff. Monkology is a collection of thirteen stories
centered around Los Angeles PI Ivan Monk. Born and raised in South Central L.A. Phillips uses his
hometown as a backdrop for his fleshed out characters and hard boiled plotlines. Phillips has worked as
a union rep, a community organizer and headed a non-profit organization to better race relations after
the 1992 riots.
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780983885719Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Rare Bird Books, 5/2012
In this collection you'll encounter starry-eyed sinners, street corner revolutionaries, Hollywood hustlers, over-heated politicians, rightwing assholes, a ghost or two, cavorting cops, architects with issues, and a little old lady with a popgun?all out to make their mark in the city of dreams and despair.
Fri, 06/01/2012 - 7:00pm
Bruce DeSilva signs Cliff Walk in San Diego.
Also signing in Redondo Beach on June 2nd.
Details to follow.
Cliff Walk: A Liam Mulligan Novel (Hardcover)
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780765332370Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Forge Books, 5/2012
Description
When Liam Mulligan, a reporter at a dying Providence newspaper, starts asking questions, he's promised free hookers if he minds his own business--and a savage beating if he doesn't. As he investigates, a child's severed arm turns up in a pile of garbage at a pig farm. Then the body of a pornographer is found at the base of Newport's famous Cliff Walk. The web of corruption and murder Mulligan eventually unearths will lead him to question his beliefs about sexual morality and shake his tenuous religious faith. Cliff Walk is the second Mulligan crime novel by Bruce DeSilva, winner of the prestigious Edgar and Macavity Awards. The new novel is at once a hard-boiled mystery and a serious exploration of sex and religion in the age of pornography.
About the Author
Bruce DeSilva worked as a journalist for 40 years before retiring to write crime novels full time. At the Associated Press, he served as the writing coach, responsible for training the wire service's reporters and editors worldwide. Previously, he directed an elite AP department devoted to investigative reporting and other special projects. Earlier in his career, he worked as an investigative reporter and an editor at The Hartford Courant and The Providence Journal.
Stories edited by DeSilva have won virtually every major journalism prize including the Polk Award (twice), the Livingston (twice), the ASNE, and the Batten Medal. He also edited two Pulitzer finalists and helped edit a Pulitzer winner. His crime fiction has won the prestigious Edgar and Macavity Awards and has been a finalist for both the Shamus and the Anthony Awards.
He has worked as a consultant on writing and editing at more than 50 newspapers including The New York Times and The Dallas Morning News, and he has been a sought-after speaker at professional gatherings including the National Writers Workshops, the Nieman Foundation, Thrillerfest, and the Mystery Writers of America. His reviews of crime novels have appeared in The New York Times book review section and continue to be published occasionally by The Associated Press.
He is currently a master's thesis adviser at The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He and his wife Patricia Smith, an award-winning poet, live in Howell, NJ, with their granddaughter Mikaila and two enormous canines, a Bernese Mountain Dog named Brady and a mutt named Rondo.
Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:00pm
Michael Scott signs The Enchantress in San Diego.
Details to follow.
The Enchantress (Hardcover)
$18.99
ISBN-13: 9780385735353Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 5/2012
Description
The twins of prophecy have been split. Nicholas Flamel is near death. John Dee has the swords of power. And Danu Talis has yet to fall. The future of the human race lies in the balance--how will the legend end?
About the Author
An authority on mythology and folklore, Michael Scott is one of Ireland’s most successful authors. A master of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and folklore, he was hailed by the Irish Times as “the King of Fantasy in these isles.” He lives and writes in Dublin.
Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:30pm
Mysterious Galaxy is proud to be partnering with Adventures by the Book for an exciting off-site event with author Amanda Hodgkinson in San Diego. The event will take place at the Westgate Hotel. For reservations and information, please visit the Adventure By the Book website.
If you cannot make the event, but would like a signed copy, contact the San Diego store, at (858) 268-4747.
Details to follow.
Sat, 06/02/2012 - 2:30pm
Details to follow
Cliff Walk: A Liam Mulligan Novel (Hardcover)
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780765332370Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Forge Books, 5/2012
Prostitution has been legal in Rhode Island for more than a decade; Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter at dying Providence newspaper, suspects the governor has been taking payoffs to keep it that way. But this isn’t the only story making headlines…a child’s severed arm is discovered in a pile of garbage at a pig farm. Then the body of an internet pornographer is found sprawled on the rocks at the base of Newport’s famous Cliff Walk.
At first, the killings seem random, but as Mulligan keeps digging into the state’s thriving sex business, strange connections emerge. Promised free sex with hookers if he minds his own business—and a beating if he doesn’t—Mulligan enlists Thanks-Dad, the newspaper publisher’s son, and Attila the Nun, the state’s colorful Attorney General, in his quest for the truth. What Mulligan learns will lead him to question his beliefs about sexual morality, shake his tenuous religious faith, and leave him wondering who his real friends are.
Cliff Walk is at once a hard-boiled mystery and an exploration of sex and religion in the age of pornography. Written with the unique and powerful voice that won DeSilva an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Cliff Walk lifts Mulligan into the pantheon of great suspense heroes and is a giant leap for the career of Bruce DeSilva.
